at work, I am totally distracted by email from friends and from internet.
at home, if i am curious about something i just research it. that used to involve the reference department at the library. Last week I saw The King’s Speech, it made me curious about the Royal Family and then I came home and and looked it all up.
i have, from when I was little (1970’s) letters that my family and friends sent. That type of correspondence is history (literally and figuratively). The sad thing is that written letters can be used by future generations for family history, and few people will have those written records in the years to come.
Facebook has enabled me to get in touch with my friends, coworkers, classmates from the past. I am on telephone very little now, most communication is PMs or email, which I prefer because I can write and respond at my convenience, not in big chunks of time. What has happened with some people I found from the past is that we talked about getting together when we first got back in touch, and then that turned into nothing. I think there’s this complacency that we are in touch thru FB and we know there’s no urgency to meet, it can be in 2 years or 4 years. I think people growing up today keep keeping in touch thru social networks for granted, but when I was little, when a friend moved away, we would write letters but then lose touch. There was no telephoning anywhere in the country for one monthly price, like now, so when someone moved, you would not call them, and eventually everyone got lost. People now take that for granted, that you can friend someone and be in touch till the day you die.
A friend called me the other day, and it’s someone I speak to infrequently, and I was thinking “why is she calling me? Why didn’t she just PM me?”